SUBMARINE WARLIKE

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1918, Page 3

SUBMARINE WARLIKE

* U-BOAT LOSSES. an ADMIRALTY STATTM-ENT. [aUSTRA I.TAN &■ N.z. CABI.K ASSOCIATION ifc BEUTER.] , (Received Riis Dav at noon.) LONDON, September 5. The Admiralty announces that although it is not intended to adopt the practice of giving proof of the official utterances of Ministers it is thought desirable to give the names of command- : ing officers of 150 German submarines, ( which were disposed of in order to sub- j stantiate to the world the statement by . the Prime Minister in the Commons on 1 the 7th of August and denied in Gor- ’ man papers that at least 150 of those , ocean pests had been destroyed. The records show that 116 from the 150 commanders are dead, 27 wore prisonered and G are int'erned, while one succeeded in returning to Germany after liis submarine was sunk. The dead include the commanders who torpedoed the cross-Channel steamer Sussex, the Arabic, the Lusitania, and the Belgian Prince. The submarine which sunk the Lusitania was lost on the Danish coast 18 months later, hut the commander survived, to bring disaster to another submarine which was lost with all hands in September 1917. The Admiralty are carefully noting the names of officers guilty of particularly wanton outrages and special endeavours are made to swiftv termm- ' ate their career.